Wednesday, February 14, 2007

winter/spring events

This year we enter our 28th year in business. Please join us to celebrate our 28 years (we need a surge of customers to fight the insurgent chain bookstores). From February 19 to Feb. 24 all books in stock will be sold at a 28% discount. On Feb. 24, 3 PM, we will have our annual birthday party, with food and drink, door prizes, 28% discounts, and poetry readings by Joyce Pye, Russell Libby, Jonathan Skinner, and Terry Grasse. Please join us for the fun!

Upcoming Gulf of Maine related events:

Feb. 27, 7 PM, Unitarian Universalist Church, Pleasant Street, BrunswickGary MCs a community reading and birthday party for Longfellow. An open reading, with birthday cake!

March 26, 730 PM, Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, Maine Street,BrunswickA night in celebration of womens literature to benefit the Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women, with Afghan food, music and video, readings by Karin Spitfire, Gary Lawless, Willie Oppenheim, and Bowdoin professor Marilyn Reizbaum. Donations will go to the RAWA literacy campaign to teach Afghan women and girls to read and write. ($65 will pay a teacher to teach up to 25 women and girls for one month).

March 31, 3 PM, Gulf of Maine Books - A Reading for Chechnya with Kenneth Rosen, Michelle Morgan, Jim Mello, Karin Spitfire, Otto Emmersleben, and Gary Lawless. We are asking for donations of books of poetry to send to the University library in Grozny, Chechnya, for the poets and readers there, as well as cash donations to help pay mailing costs.

April 2, 3 PM Gulf of Maine Books - Internationally acclaimed poets Jean Morisset (Quebec) and Michel Marchildon (Saskatchewan) will read and discuss their poetry, along with author Philip Marchand (Ontario) who will read from his new book about French explorer Rene-Robert LaSalle. Part of the 3 day Rendez-Vous de Franco-Amerique, sponsored by the University of Maine, Lewiston-Auburn.

April 12, 7 PM, Gulf of Maine Books Charles Hardy reading and discussing his new book Cowboy in Caracas - A Personal Account of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution. Mr. Hardy spent eight years as a Catholic priest living in a cardboard shack in a Caracas barrio, and will offer a personal account of the people who support Hugo Chavez, and why.

May 5, 3 PM, Gulf of Maine Books - Elizabeth Hand reading from her new novel Generation Loss, a great read, set on an island off the Maine Coast -

For updates and more details check out our blog - gulfofmainebooks.blogspot.com

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Book Lists

If you look back through our archives, you will see that a number of people have sent us book lists. We ask that you send us a list of five recommended books, on any topic you wish. (send to chimfarm@gwi.net ).Here is a list of five novels that I recommend most often at the bookstore:

About Me

Gulf of Maine Books is an independent alternative bookstore in Brunswick, Maine, founded in 1979 by Beth Leonard and Gary Lawless and still going strong!We are open Monday through Saturday, 930-530, and our phone is 207-729-5083. Our email address is: gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com